Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond Hood. . . . Even if you look down the list through the ages Raymond Hood will stand out among the architects of all time as one who had the fortune and the genius to conduct radical experimentation with mass and color. Many have had this privilege on canvas or with clay, but it is rare for a man to be allowed to play around with steel and glass and stone in this fashion...
...Clay Precedent. Down to West Virginia, politically a bastard offspring of the Solid South, the New Deal's political Generalissimo, Postmaster Farley, sent an old Democratic wheelhorse named Clement Lawrence Shaver. The last time the country heard of Mr. Shaver was just ten years ago, when as Democratic National Chairman he managed John W. Davis' magnificently unsuccessful run for the Presidency. Reason for sending Oldster Shaver back to his native State was to have him run for Senator against Old Deal Republican Senator Hatfield. Though he had the blessing of Mr. Farley, not as Postmaster General, not as party boss...
...Holt expects to get to the Senate because: 1) the Constitution also says that the Senate shall be the judge of the elections and qualifications of its members and New Deal Senators are strict constructionists when the Constitution conflicts with party desires; 2) one other Senator, the famed Henry Clay, elected from Kentucky in 1806, took office when he was still five months short of 30. Should Rush Holt try to follow in Clay's footsteps, however, there may be trouble, for many a lawyer contends that the Senate's right to "judge" its elections does not give...
...Presidency]. To my mind this is the most ungracious and outrageous statement that I have ever seen in print relating, as it does, to the First Lady of the land, and can only be excused by a medical examination showing that its author is a New Jersey clay-eating moron...
Egypt. Excavating the buried city of Karanis, University of Michigan archeologists laid bare a squat building composed of four apartments or cells. Groping through the murky interior they came upon vast clay jars and moldering cloth bags containing some 26,000 bronze coins of local manufacture. The diggers surmised that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit...